Standards
Understand the challenges of maintaining network standards and how to use Ansible and Jinja templates to enforce standardized configurations. Explore the concept of golden configurations managed through version control and automation to prevent configuration drift and reduce errors.
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The difficulty of maintaining standards
Corporate standards are very hard to maintain as networks evolve and transform. Often, the pressures of projects and deliverables of day-to-day work demands lead to standards being overlooked, put off, or ignored. Natural configuration drift can occur over time as network devices and IP addresses come and go. If network devices continue to operate, misconfigurations or poor standards may go unnoticed. When identified, ...